On March 19, 2019 the Metropolitan Beaches Commission Meeting was held at North Shore College’s Lynn campus. The Metropolitan Beaches Commission was created in 2006 by the Massachusetts Legislature to take an in-depth look at the Boston metropolitan region's 15 public beaches in Nahant, Lynn, Revere, Winthrop, East Boston, South Boston, Dorchester, Quincy, and Hull which are managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). The Commission is comprised of elected officials and...
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Trevor Etheridge and Kristen Barry of Save The Harbor Save the Bay promote the 10th annual Shamrock Splash and chat about other beach events for 2020.
Topics: Massachusetts, Quincy, Quincy Access Television, QATV, Public Access TV, Community Media, PEG,...
Longtime environmental writer and journalist Harold Gilliam sits down for an Ecology Emerges interview conducted by Chris Carlsson, Nov. 2 2009, covering his life from childhood in Los Angeles to his time at the Interior Dept. in Washington during the early 1960s, to his many years at the SF Chronicle. Gilliam was a witness to the founding of Save the Bay, he was a reporter on the freeway revolt, and helped prevent a bridge being built from Telegraph Hill to Angel Island.
Topics: ecology, journalism, Save the Bay, Interior Department
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Sep 27, 2020
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We traverse the grounds of the old military base and discover histories of farms, soldiers, abolitionists, and a lost lagoon. From the Fontana Towers to Aquatic Park we discuss urban development, ecology, slavery, World’s Fairs, and militarism. There are some sound issues in a few spots, but mostly it's clearly audible.
Topics: Fort Mason, anti-slavery, Duel, slavery, Indian slavery, Panama-Pacific International Exposition,...
A neighborhood newspaper serving Bernal Heights and San Francisco. Dedicated to providing the people of Bernal Heights with neighborhood news, ideas, issues, and events that support the Bernal Heights Community Center's mission: "To empower people in efforts to preserve the ethnic, cultural, and economic diversity of Bernal Heights and improve the economic condition of low and moderate income of people in Bernal Heights."
Topics: toy drive, Danielle Bennett, Joseph Smooke, senior programs, Frederique Clermont, Executive...
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An interview with one of the cofounders of Save The Bay in the early 1960s, Sylvia McLaughlin. This is part of Shaping San Francisco's oral history project "Ecology Emerges," covering the arc of environmental activism in the Bay Area from conservation through ecology to environmental and social justice, from the 1960s to the present.
Topics: ecology, Ecology Emerges, environmentalism, Save the Bay, conservation
From the weird madness of the Reber Plan to dam both ends of the Bay into freshwater lakes in the 1950s to the Save the Bay movement of the early 1960s that helped create the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, we’ve come a long way in a half century. Today’s open shorelines, closed trash dumps, and returning wetlands honor and preserve our greatest public resource. Historian Chuck Wollenberg and Steve Goldbeck from BCDC.
Topics: Reber Plan, Bay, Bay Area, San Francisco Bay Area, fresh water, dams, locks, earthen dams, Bay...
Peoples Food System, The Farm, and Saving San Bruno Mountain, Ecology Emerges-- Travel back in time to hear of urban farms, collectives distributing organic foods, the fight to save the mountain (San Bruno), and how the anti-war movement galvanized a movement to save the earth. Authors will read from essays in the book Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78. With Pam Peirce, Jana Blankenship, David Schooley, and Chris Carlsson
Topics: Ecology, The Farm, San Bruno Mountain, People's Food System, Environmentalism, conservation, Save...
A publication of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers for its members.
Topics: Stewart H. Bloom, Joe Luttrell, Central Freeway, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gerry Crowley, Holiday...
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News about Telegraph Hill and the Dwellers.
Topics: history, Bernie Bour, height limitations, Board of Permit Appeals, Chief Administrator Thomas J....
